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corolla over 1' long, pale violet or purple, with the tube and the end of 

 the 3 rounded lower lobes dark violet ; longer filaments toothed at the 

 base. 



T. Fournieri, Linden. Flowers racemose or scattered, the tube pale 

 violet and yellow on the back, the upper lip lilac and slightly 2-lobed, the 

 lower lip bright violet and 3-lobed, the central lobe with a yellow blotch 

 at the base ; no tooth at base of the longer filaments ; leaves ovate-cor- 

 date and serrate. Cochinchina. 



* * Calyx not wing-angled. 



T. flava, Hamilt. (T. Bailloni). Flowers axUlary, in pairs; corolla 

 yellow with a purple eye. India. 



15. CONOBEA. (Name obscure.) 



C. multffida, Benth. A diffusely spreading, minutely pubescent, low 

 herb, growing along shores Ohio, W. ; leaves opposite, and pinnately 

 parted, the divisions linear-wedge-form ; corolla greenish-wliite, and 

 scarcely longer than the calyx. 



16. HERPESTIS. (Greek : a creeping thing, alluding to the procum- 

 bent habit.) 2Z * Flower plainly 2-lipped. 



H. nigr^scens, Benth. Very leafy, glabrous, erect or nearly so ; leaves 

 oblong or lance- wedge-form, serrate, the upper ones mostly shorter than 

 the pedicels ; corolla whitish or purplish. Wet places, Md., S. 



H. rotundif6lia, Pursh. Creeping and nearly smooth ; leaves round- 

 obovate and partly clasping ; peduncles only 2 or 3 times the length of 

 the calyx; corolla white or pale blue. Pond margins. 111. to Minn., 

 and S. 



H. amplezicatilis, Pursh. Creeping at base, hairy ; leaves ovate and 



clasping ; peduncles shorter than the calyx ; corolla blue. Pine barrens, 



N J S 

 ■ ■' ' * * Corolla almost regular. 



H. Monnidra, HBK. Creeping and glabrous ; leaves wedge- obovate 

 or spatulate, sessile ; corolla pale plue. Md., S., near the ocean. 



17. LIMOSELLA, MUD WORT. (Latin : mud and seat.) (l) 



L. aqudtica, Linn., var. tenuif61ia, Hoffni. A creeping little plant, 

 with small white or purplish flowers on simple, naked peduncles ; leaves 

 thread-like or awl-form. Brackish places, N. J., N.; also far N. W. 



18. OERARDIA. (The herbalist, John Gerarde.) Handsome, but 

 mostly uncultivable plants (often partially parasitic on roots of other 

 plants ; Lessons, Fig. 89) ; flowers late summer and autumn. The 

 following are the commonest wild species. 



« Corolla yellow and with a long tube, the inside icoolly, as are the 

 filaments and anthers ; the latter almost projecting, slender-pointed at 

 base ; calyx ^-cleft ; tall herbs, xcith leaves or some of them pinnatifid 

 or toothed. 11 except the first. 



■*- Hairy or pubescent. 



f* Pubescence partly glandular and viscid. 



G. pedicul^ria, Linn. Slightly pubescent ; 2°-3° high, very leafy ; 

 leaves all piniiatitid and the lobes cut-toothed ; pedicels opposite, and 

 longer than the hairy serrate calyx lobes ; corolla over 1' long. N. Eng., 

 S. and W. ® (2) 



